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Just seeking clarification for a couple of things for the chakra scalpel.

If you have Two Weapon Fighting you are able to create two chakra scalpels. The Exarch prestige class allows you to imbue a ...

It might be a little dull, but there's always Ninja Scout: easy access to Evasion or Improved Evasion, Track, a few dice of Sneak Attack, and pretty good AC progression. You can dip into Elementalist ...

So I`m about to start a game for my players, and some are interested at some point in inventing techniques for their characters. Now what it would be like, I imagine, is not being dissimilar from crea ...

It's all about the Swift Plan, tbh. It's what makes it so amazing.

Swift Plan is pretty damn awesome. Planning is probably the only way my character can handle the tournament portion of a Chuunin E ...

If you're looking to make use of plan, why not give Master Strategist a shot?

I initially wrote it off because it ends up being sort of redundant with Ninja Hunter. The +1 to the plan result from I ...

Hi Everyone,

I'm working on a character build for an upcoming game (first full session is in a few days), and I was hoping to get some ideas to finish a build progression.

The character is a Gu ...

Realistically you can't start to really specialize in Katon until level 7, through Elementalist. A generalist build will give you the same save DCs and damage, with only small buffs to skill checks an ...

With those stats you might be better off with a generalist sort of build. I had a character build with similar scores that never got used (game fell through), but I made him into a generalist bent tow ...

One important question is how high level you expect to get over the course of the game. Planning for a character that will max out at level 5 or 6 can be very different than one that will progress to ...

After reading through a bunch of the taijutsu's I've decided on using gouken. Which feats would you suggest I take early on for this character? I know the obvious combat martial arts is super importan ...

Thank you all for the replies! As far as starting level and builds of teammates goes, I havent actually gotten into a game yet, im trying to get a feel for what my first character build will be before ...

First off, welcome to ND20! It's always nice to see new faces.

Do you know what level you'll be starting at? Or what sort of builds your teammates will be using? Anything like that can help with mo ...

I had a mistake on information, I thought we started with three feats.

Ok. For future reference, you get 1 automatically at 1st level, 1 from Human, 1 from Occupation (usually, though not all occup ...

This was also a Stat block style of character gen.

Fair enough. You should still move the 14 to Con to avoid an untimely end.

That still doesn't account for the other feats you have. You have a maximum of 4 slots if you include one from an occupation plus 2 freebies, but there are 8 total feats listed on your sheet.

This section is fine, but there are a few issues with your build.

First, how are you getting 6 feat slots? Barring significant house ruling you should have no more than 4 feats (plus simple weapon ...

Gaining a non-doujutsu bloodline "unnaturally" is something you'd need to ask your GM about. The base rules only allow implanting doujutsu, as they are the only bloodlines that have been sho ...

The short answer is yes: because of the way techniques are set up, it's pretty easy to give just about any character decent ability in most of the major technique types.

If you're really trying to ...

At that point I guess it's a choice between being a melee save tank who can heal, or (in this case) being a medic that can throw and take a couple punches, since that dictates the investment into medi ...

Frankly, Weaponmaster really isn't worth taking anymore...period. You probably have weapon focus already in your melee build by the time you can take your first level in it, and the rest of those abil ...

The technnique...is frankly a mess.

Remove the Chidori Senbon nonsense and reword the extra damage as follows: "The animal's natural attacks deal an additional 4d6 damage, and all melee damage ...

I'm still a little confused as to what ND20 time is as compared to where I am. Provided it works out to be evening for me, I should be good.

I'm EST, if that helps.

It should be obvious that the tenant needs to be added/understood in order to balance things. In the future, whenever a description states that you pick multiple targets, it should be understood that ...

Basically...someone cannot be 3 secondary targets, thus they cannot be hit by 3 of the secondary attacks, does that help?

This. Your GM is doing it wrong, and as has been stated above is breaking t ...

Even if you DID get to make AoOs, you would only get one:

Combat Reflexes
You can respond quickly when opponents let their guard down.
Benefit: The maximum number of attacks of opportunity the ch ...

You'll be guzzling chakra like it's water, but it's a good way to bring the pain.

The main drawback is going to be your crappy grapple score with this build, since as Frankto mentioned you do still ...

Frankly, the maneuvers are more or less impossible to pull off until you get your concentration skill bonus into the mid teens, at which point it becomes fairly reliable. So once you hit level 10 or s ...

Oh, that's even easier. Just have your clones make the skill checks to arm crafted bombs while the target is trapped. Or have your clone grapple a target, you tag with Kage Mane, then have a different ...

Again, it's simpler if you're the one running the tech, and your clones/allies do the damage.

Kyouka Kage Bunshin will allow the clones to use techniques of Rank 6 or lower (KKB is itself a Rank 8 S-class tech though).

The simpler way to do this is to just use Kage Mane yourself, and let yo ...